Definitions from Wiktionary (burke)

▸ verb:  (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, slang) To murder by suffocation.
▸ verb:  (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, slang, historical) To murder for the same purpose as Burke, to kill in order to have a body to sell to anatomists, surgeons, etc.
▸ verb:  (UK, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, slang) To smother; to conceal, hush up, suppress.
▸ noun:  A topographical surname from Anglo-Norman for someone who lived in a fortified place.
▸ noun:  A number of places in the United States:
▸ noun:  A ghost town in Shoshone County, Idaho.
▸ noun:  A town and village therein, in Franklin County, New York.
▸ noun:  A small city, the county seat of Gregory County, South Dakota.
▸ noun:  A minor city in Angelina County, Texas.
▸ noun:  A town in Caledonia County, Vermont, named after Edmund Burke.
▸ noun:  A census-designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia.
▸ noun:  An unincorporated community in Grant County, Washington.
▸ noun:  A town and unincorporated community therein, in Dane County, Wisconsin, named after Edmund Burke.
▸ noun:  The Shire of Burke, a local government area in north-west Queensland, Australia, named after Robert O'Hara Burke.
▸ noun:  (British, slang) Alternative form of berk [(UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, slang, derogatory, vulgar) a fool, a prat, a twit, etc.]

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